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The Circle is Widening
There is something ineffably warm about the Irish. Theirs is a culture that elevates kinship above all else and nothing encapsulates that spirit more than sharing a whiskey (and the inevitable singsong that follows). In keeping with that spirit is Jameson’s latest push to embrace whiskey drinkers of all creeds and savviness: ‘Widen the Circle’.…
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Midleton Very Rare — The Arboreal Nectar of Kylebeg Wood
Four ancient forests. Seven carefully chosen trees. A multitude of stories immemorial, given voice by way of cask and dram. Midleton – one of the world’s most revered makers of whiskey – have gone about their aging process in perhaps the most enchanting way we’ve yet witnessed. Their new range is called Dair Ghaelach, which…
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Redbreast — One for the Birds
The tradition of keeping the bottle is a marvellous exercise. Any act of converting the disposable into a trinket or keepsake has to be considered worthy. If cracking open a bottle of something special is a way of marking an occasion – the birth of a child, the union of marriage, a graduation – then…
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Redbreast 27 — When Ruby Port met Irish Whiskey
In a world that can be turned on its head in a matter of weeks the feeling of permanence is currently a seemingly distant emotion. It was barely a month ago that I was headed to Dublin to witness the launch of a new permanent addition to the Redbreast family of Single Pot Still whiskeys,…
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CASK STRENGTH | JAMESON BOW ST 18
What’s an address? Purely a location, a pin on the map, a regional identifier? For Jameson, it’s so much more. It’s the start of a legacy that would not only define a city, or a country, but the entire world of whiskey. It was the place that John Jameson created his globally famed Pot…
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Jameson Caskmates x London Beer Week
London Beer Week is something I’ve heard of, but not something I’ve given more than a passing thought to. Why you ask? Because to be honest with you, I don’t really like beer. Actually I suppose, that’s not completely accurate, it’s not that I don’t like beer, it’s just that I don’t drink it. It’s…